Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ

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Title: Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ
Language: English
Authors: Cortes Hidalgo, Andrea P., Neumann, Alexander, Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J., Jaddoe, Vincent W. V., Rijlaarsdam, Jolien, Verhulst, Frank C., White, Tonya, van IJzendoorn, Marinus H., Tiemeier, Henning
Source: Child Development. Mar-Apr 2020 91(2):347-365.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Mothers, Stress Variables, Pregnancy, Cognitive Development, Intelligence Quotient, Ethnicity, Correlation, Acculturation, Minority Groups, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: Netherlands
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13177
ISSN: 0009-3920
Abstract: The evidence for negative influences of maternal stress during pregnancy on child cognition remains inconclusive. This study tested the association between maternal prenatal stress and child intelligence in 4,251 mother-child dyads from a multiethnic population-based cohort in the Netherlands. A latent factor of prenatal stress was constructed, and child IQ was tested at age 6 years. In Dutch and Caribbean participants, prenatal stress was not associated with child IQ after adjustment for maternal IQ and socioeconomic status. In other ethnicities no association was found; only in the Moroccan/Turkish group a small negative association between prenatal stress and child IQ was observed. These results suggest that prenatal stress does not predict child IQ, except in children from less acculturated minority groups.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2020
Accession Number: EJ1246006
Database: ERIC
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